Whats the Value? Understanding the financial opportunities of your farms’ natural assets

Riverina Highlands

Whats the Value? Understanding the financial opportunities of your farms’ natural assets

Landholders from the Coolac area joined our paddock walk to learn more about on farm biodiversity and explore ways to diversify on farm income.

Speakers from the Refreshing Rivers Project, Riverina LLS, Biodiversity Conservation Trust and Environment & Heritage discussed:

- Significance of the Coolac to Tumut Serpentinite Woodland

- Natural capital –how to get started

- Biodiversity market opportunities

- Living Carbon - carbon planting project

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Upper Billabong

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Ian Geddes Reserve Working Bee

Join us for a Working Bee at Ian Geddes Reserve - Sunday 10th August 10 am - 12 pm

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Riverina Highlands

July 25, 2025

Efforts to Save One of Our Regions Rarest Plants

Refreshing Rivers has recently completed works focussing on the critically endangered Tumut Grevillea (Grevillea wilkinsonii). This Grevillea is one of the regions rarest plants with just over 1,000 individuals surviving along a 6km section of the Goobarragandra River in eastern Riverina.

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Upper Billabong

July 13, 2025

Working Bee at Ian Geddes Bush Reserve

Be part of the Refreshing Rivers Program in the Upper Billabong, and join Holbrook Landcare Network for a family-friendly morning in nature as we care for the beautiful Ian Geddes Reserve along Ten Mile Creek.

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The Refreshing Rivers Program is a collaboration between government, industry, research, and community organisations, led by Local Land Services. This Program has been assisted by the New South Wales Government through its Environmental Trust.

The Refreshing Rivers Program works on Country that always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and waters, and we pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.